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SharePoint 2013 Administration Training Objectives
All students will learn to:

• Understand the basic architecture of SharePoint 2013
• Install SharePoint Server 2013
• Scale a SharePoint 2013 farm
• Use the Central Administration site to perform day-to-day administrative activities
• Use the Windows Azure Access Control Service (ACS)
• Create and manage the content databases associated with a Web application
• Use the standard site templates available in SharePoint 2013
• Create and configure SharePoint tenancies
• Understand the Business Data Connectivity Service (BCS)
• Create External Content Types
• Configure a site collection as a Content Type Publishing Hub
• Create taxonomies of managed metadata
• Create and configure a User Profile Service Application
• Understand the search architecture and how to use it in custom solutions
• Configure the Sandboxed Code Service and monitor sandboxed solutions running within your farm
• Restore a SharePoint 2013 farm in the event of catastrophic server failure
• Migrate site content from a SharePoint 2010 farm to a SharePoint 2013 farm

SharePoint 2013 Administration Training Outline

• Getting started with SharePoint 2013
• SharePoint Foundation Architecture
• SharePoint 15 Product SKUs
• What’s New in SharePoint 2013
• Windows PowerShell Primer
• Installing SharePoint Server 2013
• Hardware Requirements
• Installing Prerequisite Software
• Creating Dedicated Service Accounts
• Installing SharePoint Server 2013
• Creating the Farm and Configuration Database
• Topology and Configuration
• Understanding Farm Topologies
• Configuring Managed Accounts
• Managing Timer Jobs
• Creating and Configuring Service Applications by hand
• Creating and Configuring Service Applications using PowerShell
• Configuring Security and User Authorization
• The Fundamentals of Claims-based Security
• Configuring Integrated Windows Authentication with Kerberos vs. NTLM
• Configuring Forms-based Authentication (FBA)
• Outsourcing User Management to External Identity Providers such as Windows Live
• Configuring a Trust to the Windows Azure Access Control Service (ACS)
• Creating and Configuring Web Applications
• Creating New Web Applications
• Configuring Web Application
• Managing Content Databases
• Creating Site Collections
• Configuring Self-service Site Collections
• Managing Site Collections and Tenancies
• Site Templates (Not required)
• Capacity Planning
• Site Collection Security
• Understanding Tenancies (Not required)
• Configuring Subscriptions
• Business Connectivity Services
• BCS Architecture External Data Sources
• Creating and Configuring External Contents Types
• Configuring Profile Pages and External Lists
• BCS Enhancements involving OData Support
• Using The Secure Store Service to configure Advanced Authentication Techniques
• The Managed Metadata Service
• Overview of the Managed Metadata Service
• Enhancement to the Managed Metadata Service in SharePoint 2013
• Creating and Managing Term Sets, Terms and Taxonomies
• Working with Document Sets
• Configuring a site collection as a Content Type Publishing Hub
• Configuring the User Profile Service
• Overview of User Profiles and Social Networking
• Create and Configuring a User Profile Service Application (UPA)
• Create and Configuring The User Profile Synchronization Service (UPS)
• Creating and configuring Audiences
• Creating and Managing My Sites (Not Required)
• Understanding User Task Synchronization using the Work Management Service
• Configuring a Search in SharePoint 2013 (Need Understanding of FAST Search & Not out of the box search functionality)
• The New Unified Search Architecture of SharePoint 2013
• Creating and Configuring Content Sources
• Understanding the Content Processing Pipeline
• Introduction to Result Sources, Result Types and Query Rules
• Working with Managed Properties
• Health Monitoring and Optimization
• The Developer Dashboard
• Working with ULS Logs
• The Logging Database
• Health Analyzer and Usage Reporting
• Timer Jobs and Server Affinity
• The New Request Manager in SharePoint 2013
• Deploying and Monitoring Custom Solutions
• Deploying and Managing Farm solutions and Sandboxed Solutions
• Introduction to the new SharePoint App Model
• Configuring SharePoint App Authentication using OAuth
• Configuring SharePoint App Authentication using Server-to-server (S2S) Trusts
• Preparing for Backup, Restore, and Disaster Recovery
• Versioning and Restoring Documents
• Configuring Recycle Bin Behavior
• Backup and Restore of site collections, Content Database and Farms
• Preparing for Disaster Recovery
• Recovering the Farm After Server Failure
• Upgrading Content from SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013
• Upgrade Concepts and Terminology
• Deprecated Upgrade Techniques from SharePoint 2010
• Preparing for Database Attach
• Migrating Content
• SharePoint 2010 UI Mode versus SharePoint 2013 UI Mode
• And last Conclusion